Designer Insights with Anjie Cho

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Anjie Cho is a holistic designer and architect, offering a feng shui and green design service in the state of New York, see @holisticSpaces. Anjie is passionate about creating nourishing and beautiful spaces for her many clients. Through her work she enhances balance and harmony, utilising sustainability and ancient feng shui techniques. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and certified feng shui consultant from the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program. So we are proud to bring you the Designer Insights of Anjie Cho.

IN YOUR OWN WORDS, DESCRIBE YOUR UNIQUE STYLE AND CREATIVE ASTHETIC?

Feng shui and holistic design inspire my work for meaning and purpose in my design decisions. We find beauty in simplicity and balance and design harmonious living and work spaces that resonate uniquely with each individual client. 

WHEN STARTING A NEW PROJECT, WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?

The creative process begins with the needs and desires of the client. From there, we work with the physical and energetic environment to create a holistic space. 

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My Career Choice: Anjie Cho – Architect and Feng Shui Interior Designer

featured this month on Woman Around Town

Anjie Cho, a registered New York State architect and feng shui interior designer, has been creating beautiful and nourishing spaces for more than 14 years. A graduate in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley, Anjie has managed a variety of high-end residential and commercial renovations.

The founder of Holistic Spaces, she creates and enhances balance and harmony with an understanding of sustainability and informed by the ancient practice of feng shui. Her focus is to create a nurturing and supportive environment for each of her clients, at whatever level they feel comfortable. Anjie is currently the co-manager of the New York City Chapter of the International Feng Shui Guild. She is a feng shui and green interiors blog contributor to Inhabitat.com and an eHow.com design expert and presenter.

Anjie is working on her forthcoming book, 108 Ways to Create Holistic Spaces: Feng Shui and Green Design for Healing and Organic Interiors.

Can you point to one event that triggered your interest in your career?
Ever since I can remember, I have always found great joy in creating, designing and sharing beauty with others. I can specifically remember one occasion I attended a basket-making class. I was in a class at the local park, and we soaked long fibers in water until they softened. Then we carefully shaped them into baskets. I love the metaphor of intertwining different elements into a beautiful container to hold objects and experiences.

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eHow.com Video: Ways to Reduce Waste Sent to Landfills

Ways to Reduce Waste Sent to Landfills

Ways to Reduce Waste Sent to Landfills

Compost, recycle and purchase recycled content to prevent additional waste from being sent to landfills

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Video Transcript:

I'm Anjie Cho, and these are ways to reduce waste sent to landfills. Did you know that in 2012 Americans disposed a total of 4.6 pounds per person per day. It's interesting to look at this chart from the EPA to see what we can do to reduce waste sent to landfills. 

Paper and paper board can be reused and recycled. I always make sure to print on both sides of the printer paper if possible. I also save the paper and use a blank side to make a scrap paper notepad. Plastics can also be reused and recycled. I try to reuse plastics as much as possible. I also BYOB, bring my own bag, when I go shopping. If you forget your bag, opt for paper, it's easier to recycle.

For both paper and plastic, whenever possible reuse first then recycle. I also encourage you to purchase post-consumer recycled content whenever possible. By choosing post-consumer recycled you support and create a bigger demand for recycling and the infrastructure for more environmentally responsible living. Fewer products are made from virgin materials and therefore reduce the waste sent to landfills.

Glass and metals like this are the easiest materials to recycle, so no excuses. Yard trimmings and food waste can be composted.

Food waste that goes to landfills doesn't decompose but instead it produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas. Instead, compost the food waste and make it into something useful. Many urban areas offer community compost programs.

Rubber, leather and textiles can be recycled through textile recycling programs, or if they're still usable, take them to your local Goodwill.

I hope we can all work together to reduce waste sent to landfills by reducing, reusing, recycling and composting as much as possible.

by Anjie Cho